@ Hillman Hall (Lecture Room 70), Washington University in Saint Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, University City, 63130
Saint Louis artist Damon Davis will join in conversation with Professor Rebecca Wanzo of Washington University in Saint Louis and author D. Scot Miller. This conversation seeks to situated Davis's recent work in the movement of Afro-Surrealism but also more broadly discuss the status of black creativity in our tumultuous political times.
Free

@ Washington University in St. Louis, Knight Hall, Emerson Auditorium
As part of the University Libraries Faculty Book Talk Series, Holden Thorp, provost of Washington University in St. Louis, and Buck Goldstein, entrepreneur in residence at UNC-Chapel Hill, will discuss Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities (UNC Press). In the book, Thorp and Goldstein provide a timely assessment of the state of higher education, which has come under criticism in recent years due to rising tuition costs and other factors.
A reception and book signing will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public.
Free

​The Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America (CRISMA) will host its inaugural conference by convening scholars who study the impact of inequality and structural racism on people of color in the United States. The conference will bring together talented scholars working toward the elimination of racial inequalities in social, economic, and health outcomes.
This event will be in the Clark-Fox Forum in Hillman Hall at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.
Free